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Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
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This program is read by Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.

To fix the world they must first break it, further.

Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.

When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away.

Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.

Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

©2024 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
Adventure Hard Science Fiction Humorous Robotics Witty Thought-Provoking Funny
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“With humor, heart, and hope balancing out the decay, this glimpse of the future is sure to win fans.”—Publishers Weekly

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More please!

I love stories when a robot is in the first person. Adrian needs to take a page from the Murderbot series and make this one into a series too! We only get one every year or so and “we” need more!

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Interesting…

Great storytelling and I really enjoyed the voice acting. This author is multi talented! I thought is was a fun standalone book.

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Very relevant!

Very well written robots perspective of the collapse of civilization (which as we are told has a negative impact on the availability of new updates...

The ending is a very apt explanation of how AI can be dangerous even (or perhaps especially) if it doesn't develop self awareness

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Author surprised me

I’ve read almost all the author’s work. I’ve enjoyed all. When I came across an initial review of this book I could not quite imagine it. Lucky for me the author did. Well done.

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In a whimper, and not a bang after all…

I really enjoyed this book! Given the rise of artificial intelligence in, it seems, everything these days the story is quite timely. The narration was “spot on” in my humble opinion.
All hail UnCharles and The Wonk!

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Fun and surprisingly unpredictable

as a technologist, it was frighteningly plausible and yet still had tons of surprising reveals.

I want to tell you anything about the story but it would spoil it for you!!!

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Fantastic!

I loved this! A interesting and well told story with an equally excellent narration. Highly recommended.

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A robot vision of the humanity

What I liked more was the fact that the author draw, from the point of view of a robot the essence of existence. At all level of human or digital life there is the profound meaning of purpose.

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Wonderful

This is so good. How he can write a book about robots and have it be so much like humans and our society is amazing!

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Charming and Endearing

I just loved this book, the performance, the story and the intelligence in which it was presented. Anyone who has worked in I.T. or with software will have a special appreciation for this book, while others can appreciate the charm and over arching message.

it can be a bit dry but if you liked the murderbot diaries this feels like a more authentic version of that to me.

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